Summary: | app-arch/tar: dynamically select compressors at runtime | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Reuben Farrelly <reuben-gentoo-bugzilla> |
Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system> |
Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Reuben Farrelly
2013-03-31 00:15:33 UTC
we're not going to add USE flags just to set --with-bzip2/etc... to different values at runtime. you can use per-package env to set EXTRA_ECONF on your own system. what might make sense is to have a wrapper and tell tar to run that, and the wrapper will select on the fly from a suite of possible tools. but neither of these options are preventing you from doing: lbzip2 -dc foo.tar.bz2 | tar xf - or: tar -I lbzip2 -xf foo.tar.bz2 Use EXTRA_ECONF for tar or use app-alternatives. |